A hundred Obama speeches and exchanges with Republican members of Congress or other conservatives will never stem the flow of hatred and political blood lust that the Republican Party has decided to employ as their vicious approach to 2009/2010 politics. They will continue to say "NO" and obstruct any and every proposal by Obama's Party even at the expense of their own credibility. Add to that the relentless misinformation being spread or allowed to be uttered and repeated by the media echo chamber and you have the current situation in which absolutely clear and demonstrated facts are ignored amid the screaming and howling of an angry, ignorant, and detached public aching to blame someone no matter how blind their attacks. It is a fact free atmosphere that is being exploited and abetted by Republicans at all levels. Senator McCain, of my own state of AZ, has opportunistically and stupidly asserted that Obama is guilty of "blaming it all on Bush", even though he knows full well that the fault regarding the national debt lies squarely at Cheney/Bush doorstep. But then McCain has also admitted that the Republican Party has dug itself a deep hole. They may well experience a debacle trying to climb out of that hole in 2010 and 2012 no matter how stupidly the voting public reacts to the national debt.

In consideration of your comment Mr. S.Wolf Britain,

actually, it is kind of a stupid issue or trivial technicality . Whether he was born on 100% American soil,( whatever that is , its changed many times) should not be such an important factor for what does place of birth tell you about a person's character, intelligence, integrity, etc? Those things are developed along the way... Palin was born on American soil, and I dare say she's not exactly as qualified as Obama, or hell even Bush to be president.

Why such a fixation on such a minor, and ultimately meaningless technicalityl in the face of character and the like? And sorry but I just can't respect such blind, uncritical support of the same document that once declared my darker skinned friends as 3/5ths a person while denying them any rights, required another national movement and amendment to give women the right to vote, accorded indigenous people virtually no status whatsoever, and, perhaps most importantly in light of recent history my question(s) to you is this- and please pardon my long-winded writing,

You obviously have a great deal of reverence for the flawed (since its creation mind you) document we call the Constitution-right down to details that arguably have nothing to do with presidential characteristics like leadership, integrity, intelligence etc, ....so, did you profess this very intense, unwavering faith in the laws and conditions set forth in the constitution and profess the same degree of criticism for anyone deviating from its decrees during the last administration? My point is, as far as adhering to and respecting the constitution, how does being born and spending part of your infancy, (not even his formative years) in another country COME ANYWHERE CLOSE to what the last administration did to your beloved constitution?need an example, how about the Patriot act for starters...anyone even remember what habeas corpus is? and why its important? Were you this passionate about the constitution while Bush n Co. wire tapped phones and shipped people off indefinitely to Guantanamo and who knows where else to have who knows what kinds of terrible things done to them?
This may be exactly the type of short term memory to which Mr. Rivers Pitt is referring.
Thank you for reading and I'm eager to hear what you think

Because, you admitted traitor to the Supreme Law of the Land, the U.S. Constitution, and therefore to this country, "TommyB", it's a matter of loyalty, and that's what the Founders were concerned about and why they put Article 2, Section 1 regarding eligibility for President in the Constitution.

It's a matter of whether a presidential candidate and/or President of the United States is ONLY loyal to the U.S. Constitution and to America, or whether he or she has "dual loyalty" because of giving allegiance to another, or other, country(ies) and therefore NOT having loyalty ONLY to the United States.

There is significant evidence that Obama was very likely born in Kenya, Africa, thereby had British and Kenyan citizenship, and the latter government thereof has sealed his birth records. He also lived for a "considerable", period of time in, and was a citizen of, Indonesia. Thus his loyalty(ies) may lie singularly or primarily with the countries of Great Britain (since at the time of Obama's birth Kenya was a colony of England), Kenya and/or Indonesia. Also, the State of Hawaii has sealed his birth records as well.

Regardless, though, Obama is an agent of the multi-national corporations and international banking cartel(s); therefore, his allegiance is NOT to the United States, he is unconstitutionally and illegally carrying out the office of President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military, and he is being used to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.

Thus, ascertaining his Constitutional eligibility to be President is an excellent way to challenge the tyranny and treason he is perpetra(i)ting against this country, and the war crimes he is perpetra(i)ting against the world, which are also against and in violation of the U.S. Constitution, other U.S. law(s), and international law(s) and treaties that are joined to the U.S. Constitution under the Supremacy Clause thereof, and are therefore also the Supreme Law of the Land.

But, because the U.S. Constitution had flaws, WHICH WERE CORRECTED, and because this country has made extreme mistakes in the past, does NOT mean we are not to have complete loyalty to the Constitution of the United States. Nor does it mean that Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution is a "mistake" or in any way flawed; and, if it had been, it is an issue that undoubtedly would have been addressed and corrected with a Constitutional Amendment long before now, yet it hasn't been questioned.

And, in answer to your questions, yes I DID have the same "very intense, unwavering faith in the laws and conditions set forth in the (C)onstitution and profess the same degree of criticism for anyone deviating from its decrees during the last administration"; and I DID protest the Constitutional violations, tyranny and treason perpetra(i)ted by the Bush administration just as vehemently, if not even more vehemently.

You make the mistake, like others' here, of presuming me guilty and assuming that I am "right-wing", but I am NOT. Instead, I am a Constitutionalist, as ALL True American Patriots, whether "liberal" or "conservative", are.

ALL issues of violating the U.S. Constitution are VERY important; and, just because the Bush administration's Constitutional violations may have been more serious, if indeed that is so, than the question of whether Obama is eligible to be serving as a U.S. President, does NOT make looking into and hopefully correcting the severe breach of Constitutional mandates ANY less important if in fact he is ineligible to be President; nor ANY less of a responsibility and/or duty to investigate and correct.

Wherefore, instead of making traitorous remarks and unwarranted accusations and/or allusions, completely stand up against the tyranny and treason of ANY AND ALL "Presidential" administration(s), regardless of party affiliation or quibbling over the level of seriousness of their treason and tyranny. Despotism is despotism. Tyranny is tyranny. Treason is treason. And they ALL MUST be stood up against irrespective of their alleged severity; for, it is treason for a usurper to be occupying the office of President of the United States, and a usurper is what Obama is if he is Constitutionally ineligible to be President.

What I "should be talking about" is all of it, which I do, some here, some elsewhere.

Under Article 2, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, McCain wasn't and/or isn't eligible to be President either, but at least Congress looked into it concerning him. Obama was given a free pass, and the Dem-controlled Congress refused to investigate, and have covered up, the issue of his eligibility (or lack thereof).

I am against ALL of the candidates, even the so-called "independent" ones, so you needn't worry that I supposedly go after the Dems but not the Repugnants. I go after both sides of the false left-right paradigm. And I believe most if not all of the "independent side" are controlled opposition; so, if they were relevant, or some issue they support needed responding to, I would go, and have gone, after them too.

It's another typical presumption that is made; if someone goes after a Dem President, and they don't spell out everything and prove that they're truly against both sides, they supposedly must be GOP. Well, I would not be a member of any party even if I was going to be murdered if I didn't side with one "corptocracy" over another, for they are ALL mass-murderers that I wouldn't be complicit with if you offered to make me a millionaire if I would be. A few people cannot be bought, and I'm one of them.

I do NOT "dig my own hole". You simply look to create any "hole" you can in order to ignore what I have to say, to "bury" me in, and/or to seek to relegate what I have to share to "the memory hole" in order to get others' to ignore and/or further denigrate me and what I have to offer.

Me "uninformed"? On the contrary, I look at both sides of the issues, such as the "birther" one. You, on the other hand, refuse to fully look at and consider with a truly open mind the "birther" side of the issue; and/or have little or no loyalty to the U.S. Constitution, sovereignty of the United States, and/or to the country itself; and that makes YOU uninformed, and/or misinformed, etc., not myself.

Aren't the right-wingnuts using the "birther" issue to attack Obama any way(s) they can? Yes, of course they are. But they are right on the issue of whether Obama is a "natural born citizen" or not, even if their motives for addressing the issue are not completely pure, and/or even though they DO have ulterior motives. If there had been a question of whether or not BushCON, Jr. was a "natural born citizen", I would have fully supported going after him on that issue, as well as the many others that he more than amply deserved to be gone after concerning.

Fulfilling the requirements of, and/or upholding, the U.S. Constitution is NOT "inconsequential minutiae". It is the Supreme Law of the Land to which ALL U.S. citizens have a responsibility and duty of fealty to, or they are traitors to it and to this country. It is that relatively "simple". NO ONE is above the law under the U.S. Constitutional-republic system of things; and, since most of both sides of the isle are ALL extreme, habitual, multitudinous, mass-murderous criminals, and/or are complicit therein, we must seek to have ALL OF THEM held accountable, and on ANY AND ALL issues of what laws they are in violation of.

Therefore, if Obama is a usurper to the office of the presidency of the United States in violation of the highly serious "natural born citizen" clause(s) of the U.S. Constitution, which it VERY MUCH appears that he IS, then we are all obligated to take this issue seriously and to seek to go after him concerning it; unless, of course, we have little or not loyalty to the Constitution, to this republic, and to at least trying to save it, and are thus traitors.

"TommyB", you have admitted that you have no loyalty to the U.S. and to its Supreme Law of the Land, its Constitution; and have therefore alluded to believing in and being in favor of doing away with national sovereighty and independence, and bringing the U.S. under the completely evil, enslaving, corporate-fascist "New World Order (NWO)" and one-world government; thus, you are a true enemy of this country, of myself, and of ALL True Americans; as are all so-called "Americans" who take a similar position to what you do, making all of you very much guilty of treason, and making all of you extreme traitors.

But, fortunately for all of your Godless, traitorous kind, True American Patriots like myself do not believe in the death penalty, or "capital punishment"; otherwise, in some circles of this country, what you have admitted to is a capital offense; and what you have admitted to being guilty of makes you, and all those like you, complicit in the NWO's completely treasonous plot to overthrow this country and to enslave the entire world, therefore an extreme threat to the liberties and sovereignty of this country and all Americans, and will make all of you responsible for our descent into absolute insanity. In other words, all of your ilk will help bring about a level of hell on earth that has never before been seen or suffered in the entire history of this planet.

Wherefore, to ALL of you traitors to God, to this country, and to the whole world...

"It is written, thus says the Lord [God in Jesus the Christ, the Word(s) of God, and the Maker / Creator of all things except evil]...":

"...Get... behind Jesus (the Christ), Satan..."! "...You are of your father the devil, and the lies of your father you... do..."!

"...Repent...; for (the very end and) the kingdom of heaven is (very near) at hand..."! [Matthew 16:23; John 8:44; and Matthew 3:2; etc.; emphasis and/or clarification(s) added by me; and quoting this is my right under freedom of religion, belief, expression and speech clause(s) of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.]

First of all, this is one of the few websites that I comment on; in fact, this is the only one at the present time; so I don't spam.

Secondly, the truth is "conspiracy fact", not "conspiracy babble"; but, obviously, you can't handle the truth.

Thirdly, I am being on-topic discussing the issue of "O-bomb-a-few-hundred-thousand-people-to-death's" eligibility to be president (or to not be), since Will Pitt brought the issue up himself in this very article / thread.

So, Man, am I sick of people like cowardly, anti-Constitutional anonymous commenters who would take away some people's freedom of speech, but also believe that slandering those who's free speech they would like to see taken away and making ad hominem attacks against them is supposedly "okay".

Therefore, all of you unpatriotic civil law and Constitution violators please stop your ad-hominem-attack and slander babble, as well as your blind praise of "O-bomb-a".

Btw, in response to previous allusions thereto, and before someone again alludes to it, I have a rhetorical question: So I should be in unity with traitors? God forbid! I will NEVER align myself with traitors, especially admitted ones!

Man, it is very sad and unfortunate how many so-called "Americans" are not even very familiar, if at all familiar, with the U.S. Constitution, and don't have much if any respect for it and/or the rights of ALL Americans and other human beings.

Thus, what will "you" seek to have my Constitutional rights violated for, and slander and/or attack me for, next?

It is NOT my responsibility, especially in comments, to provide you with all of the proof. It is YOUR responsibility to go check out my claims and read the "birthers" side of the story with a truly open mind. I've said or alluded to that several times now, but you just toss aside those suggestions because it's not convenient to your close-mindedness, avoidance and denial of truth, and intellectual laziness, not to mention your continual propagation of your anti-religiousness and Godlessness seeking to deceive people with it and convince them of it.

Have you even gone and read Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution? No, I'll bet not. Because it's part of some supposedly "myopic" document, and supposedly nothing but a symbol, of false, blind patriotism. But, with that attitude this country would never have come to exist and you probably wouldn't be here right now. Man, I'm so tired of you Godless liberals, and of your "religious" supporters like ministers who have been completely brainwashed by counterfeit "Christianity" and are therefore just as Godless and lost as the non-religious Godless!

I've studied God's Word(s) in-depth for thirty years, therefore I in a sense have the equivalent of several theological degrees, at least in principal, but thank God I didn't go to some seminary to be brainwashed with nothing but a counterfeit version of Christianity!

I telephoned an old minister-"friend" of mine that I've known for almost thirty years several weeks ago; and, because he evidently didn't want to talk with me, instead of being honest as a True Christian would have been and simply telling me that, he lied and told me he'd call me back in five minutes, but to this day he has NEVER called me back, though I've emailed him and left him a couple of phone messages since. He won't email me back either.

You "ministers" are all a bunch of hypocrites and false prophets, further deceiving people into believing in counterfeit "Christianity" and leading them to lose their souls for eternity; and leading people like "TommyB" to reject Jesus the Christ because of your hypocrisy.

Revelation 21:7-8 and 22:14-15 make it very clear that NO LIARS ARE GOING TO GET INTO HEAVEN, but all of you counterfeit-"Christians" are liars who misinterpret Scriptures, deceive people into believing these lying misinterpretations, and are blind "leaders" leading other blind people to their destruction. You make God and people like myself heartsick, for you probably will never fully wake up and TRULY get right with God before it's very soon too late, if it isn't already too late for you.

You are grieving away the Holy Spirit, which is the true meaning of "the unpardonable sin", and you don't even know it!